Subject: Re: locking users in their home dir?
To: Ted Lemon <mellon@hoffman.vix.com>
From: Chris Jones <cjones@rupert.honors.montana.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 10/20/1998 14:19:19
>>>>> "TL" == Ted Lemon <mellon@hoffman.vix.com> writes:

TL> Unfortunately, most unix applications and particularly build
TL> environments assume that people will have a umask of 002 and that
TL> most directories on the system will have permissions of 0755, so
TL> setting up a more restrictive permission policy tends to fail in
TL> obscure and annoying ways.  Sigh.

I've never had problems with umask 022...

Chris

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